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The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. 

• Serve as thought partner to assigned regional leaders to ensure we contextualize and deliver on the people and operational priorities of the IRC GEDI action plan, including ensuring adequate integration and resourcing in regional and country strategic plan. 

• Partner with Regional leaders and P&C Directors to help country leaders identify gap in representation and inclusion and set substantial goals for more equitable internal practices and policies in support of the IRC feminist commitment. This includes devising and supporting implementation of contextually relevant solutions to drive achievements of IRC’s Leadership Diversity Goals and strengthen a culture of inclusion and belonging of underrepresented and marginalized staff. 

• Serve as assessor of progress, aggregate outcomes to support report on progress and data-driven decision making and strengthen accountability.  

• Collaborate with the team of Senior GEDI Advisors to develop and/deploy context-relevant tools, solutions, and programs to enable inclusion and promotion of key underrepresented employee groups through the employee life cycle (ex: women, SOGIESC, people with disabilities, LGBTIQ+, underrepresented and racial minorities).

• Provide technical support to regional and country P&C functions to review, design, and implement GEDI-related policies and functional-specific interventions that eliminate inequities and enable an inclusive workplace culture in alignment with the IRC Equality Value. 

• Collaborate with regional (and where needed country) Safety and Security, Safeguarding, and Operations partners to address context-specific GEDI gaps and challenges and build adequate GEDI capacities within their team. 

• Serve as a hub of GEDI knowledge for the regional and country teams to provide technical knowledge and expertise, monitor new practices, document the results, and provide ongoing coaching and capacity building to country GEDI staff.

Learning and employee group support 

• Design and deliver context-specific GEDI learnings to support an inclusive culture and enhance the belonging of diverse groups. 

• Mobilize and support regional Employee groups (including Women at Work groups) and cross regional community of practice (including GEDI Champions) as agents of change in the cultural transformation.  

• Work with Employee groups to promote dialogue and engagement on key GEDI matters, surfacing emerging issues and opportunities, and recommending solutions to enhance our workplace GEDI Strategy.

• Graduate degree or years in additional work experience

• 6 + years of related experience that includes:

• Direct experience leading and influencing organizational partners to adopt feminist principles as core to all organizational processes, policies, and activities.

• Experience leading and supporting change management to embed an inclusive work culture.

• At least 2 years in the humanitarian and/or international development sector.

• At least 3 years of experience in one or more of CRRD Regions

• Experience building communities of practice.

• Excellent spoken and written of English